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WZAP ExclusiveJIM CROCElt;c99I’m no missionary/' says Jim Croce about his songs, “and I can’t wear any armour, either.I just gotta be the way I am.” Jim’s musical career started when he was five years old, learning to play “Lady of Spain” on the accordian. He says, “I was the original underachiever. I’d shake that thing and smile, but I was sort of a late bloomer.” He didn’t really take music too seriously until 1964, while he was attending Villanova College in Pennsylvania. Therevarious bands, doing parties and playingthat the peoplehear: blues, rock, arailroad music...anything.” One of the bands was chosen for a foreignexchange tour of Africa and the Middle East. “We had a good time,” Jim recalls. “We just ate what the people ate, lived in the woods, and played our songs. Of course, they didn’t speak English over there..but I if you meanwhat you’re singing, peopleunderstand.”He returned to Philadelphia and had decided to be “serious.”he formed fraternity “anything wanted to cappella,remained on the coffee housecircuit for a year and a half, involving themselves in the music business and collecting guitars. But, they soon became discouraged by the agitation and pressures of city life, and move to Lyndeli, Pennsylvania, where they had their son, Adrian James. Ingrid learned to bake bread and to can fruits and vegetables and Jim, like a rich lady selling her jewels, sold the guitars he had accumulated ,one by one. When the guitars ranout, he worked construction again and did some studio work New York. “Mostlyinbackground ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ for commercials. I kept thinking, ‘maybe tomorrow I’ll sing somewords.”Terry Cashman and Tommy West, who knew that Jim’s talents could be put to better use, were still trying to convince him to do another album and get back into performing. Life in Lyndeli was calmer than it hadbeen in New York and Philadelphia and finally Jim decided that he could resume playing and still have time to
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Middletown Capitol
Middletown, Connecticut, US
Mon, Nov 26, 1973
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